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On April 1st and 2d, The University of Texas School of Law and the American Constitution Society will be hosting a conference on The Future of Equality. This conference is one of a series of academic events connected to the Constitution in 2020 project.

Over the next two weeks speakers at the conference will be posting short essays about their work on Balkinization.

• Emily Zackin, Princeton—Positive Rights and State Constitutions (presented by Sanford Levinson, University of Texas) • Michael Paris, CUNY-Staten Island—Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform (presented by Rick Schragger, University of Virginia) • Sanford Levinson, University of Texas, Commentator • Rick Schragger, University of Virginia, Commentator • Frank Cross, University of Texas—Moderator and Commentator

Panel Two 11:00-12:30

Relations between Equality and Liberty—Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

On October 7th and 8th, 2010, Florida State University Law School and the American Constitution Society will be hosting a conference on The Future of Criminal Justice. This conference is one of a series of academic events connected to the Constitution in 2020 project. Over the next few weeks speakers at the conference will be posting short essays about their work on Balkinization.

Conference ScheduleThursday Evening:

6pm- Keynote Speaker Steve Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights

Friday Morning: 8:30am-8:55am- Opening Remarks

• Dean Don Weidner, FSU Law

• Professor Jack Balkin, Yale Law

9:00am-10:30am- Panel One: National Security and Liberty

• Chris Slobogin, Vanderbilt Law

• Susan Herman, Brooklyn Law

• John Parry, Lewis & Clark

• Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center

• Jack Balkin, Yale Law (moderator)

10:40am-12:10pm- Panel Two: Crime Control and Equality

• David Sklansky, Cal.-Berkeley

• Song Richardson, DePaul Law

• Darryl Brown, Virginia Law

• Susan Bandes, FSU Law (visitor) and DePaul Law (moderator and panelist)

Welcome to the Constitution2020.org, a companion site for The Constitution in 2020 (Oxford University Press 2009), edited by Jack M. Balkin and Reva Siegel.

This website will contain blog posts about constitutional issues of the day related to the themes of the book. It has sample chapters from the book for you to download and read. And it will eventually contain a library of suggested readings and documents about the Constitution and constitutional issues.

Take a look around and we hope you will come back to visit us regularly.

The Constitution in 2020 is a companion website to The Constitution in 2020 (Oxford University Press 2009). Here you will find ten sample chapters from the book, essays about the future of the U.S. Constitution, discussions of current constitutional issues, a bibliography and resources for further study.